Double Nepotism!

What’s this? Two posts in two days? Visions of a fully func­tional blog dance before my eyes!

Today I’ve got some­thing mildly self-serving for you guys–a col­lab­o­ra­tion between two boarders at Hip­inion, hip­ster brain­trust extra­or­di­naire. Boarder #1 is Toaster aka Hari aka Robotville, an elec­tronic folk act out of the UK. Boarder #2 is rollie aka Roland Pem­berton aka Cadence Weapon. I’ve posted about him before, and no doubt you’ve heard his debut record Breaking Kay­fabe (buy) or at least heard of him due to his tours with Islands, Bus­driver, and Why?.

Things like this are why I love Hip­inion; for all its snob­bery and snarkery and life-destroying antics, occa­sion­ally its con­stituents come together and create some­thing beau­tiful. Here we’ve got Hari’s simple upbeat folk tune (reminds me most of that breakout Sugar Ray song, actu­ally, but in a good way) aug­mented by a killer verse by Rollie (best lines: “They say I’m indie rock like an asian girl­friend”; “so I hang with the idiot, like I was Ian Curtis”).

Anyway, check it out:

Robotville — “Kick Out the Snow (feat. Cadence Weapon)”